Sorry I start my story out with Helen's friend story then it moves onto Helen and Ashley when they visit her..hope you enjoy…review pretty please with a cherry on top…it's my first story..i hope to write more so give me some ideas…thanks enjoy.

The begging of her adventures

Four year old Grace was born in Moscow, Russia. Here she learned gymnastics and kick boxing, she was very athletic and had plenty of self-defense. She grew up living in foster homes due to her mother and father abandoning her. She felt unloved and very unwanted she wondered where her life would take her. That was a question she should have never asked herself because what she didn't know was what would happen next.

Now grace was 21 years old and working in a laboratory under the streets of Moscow. She called the lab Sanctuary. Her boss whom she "serves" for is Helen, but she always called her boss or Magnus. She was happy with her job and Helen was a very nice boss. Grace also has a boyfriend named John. John was different he changed jobs every 2 months she never could keep up with where he worked or what he did, but what she did know was that he made very good money. Grace loved john with all her heart she wanted to marry him as soon as he asked her, the problem with that is he hadn't asked her. This disappointed Grace tremendously! One evening after work Grace left the office pretty late she had assumed everyone had gone home and she would have to lock up. Her assumption was incorrect; Magnus was still in her office and having a pretty heated talk with Ashley her daughter. As she remembered Ashley was one pretty rebellious teenager, she hoped this would end well. As Grace approached her car she sensed someone watching her very carefully and it made her nervous. She turned around and found John watching her from a short distance admiring her outfit and her hair, Grace quietly approached him.

"Hey" she said. "Hello beautiful" he said back giving her a light peck on the lips. "Why do you tease me so?" She asked. "How do I tease you?" he replied back. "You kiss me ever so lightly like I am a disease and you try not to catch me, but I know this assumption is not true" she responded with a teasing tone. He said to her "If you were a disease I would try so hard to catch you and let no one else have you". They laughed holding hands; they walked to The Rose Ristorante down the street. As they entered the diner Grace was hit with a beautiful French aroma. She smiled pleased; John had agreed to take her here. At the table John asked her "How was your day?" She replied quickly saying "It was decent not too much work that needed to be done today, how was yours?" "Mine was okay better now that I'm here with you." He replied. As she smiled bashfully he told her "your smile is so pretty it makes me go all gooey inside". She smiled some more taking his hand from across the table and placing it in hers. After dinner and all the small talk he drove her back to her apartment and she invited him in. She offered him some wine and turned on the television while sitting down on the couch next to him. He wrapped his arm around her taking in the feel of her baby blue silk short cropped dress. She settled back into his arm taking in the sensation of his comfort and love she didn't want this moment to end. She had her eyes glued on the TV while taking quick glances of John out the corner of her eye. Before she realized it John had turned his head and lightly kissed her ever so softly on the cheek. She accepted this kiss and craved more so she slowly turned her head toward him and kissed him on the cheek back. When she did this John turned his body toward her and wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her a bit closer and kissed her lightly on the lips. Grace didn't stop him she didn't want to stop him she liked this. She kissed him back and slid a bit closer into him at this he wrapped his arms a bit tighter around her and pulled in even closer, so close she was then on his lap exactly where he had imagined her for years. She kissed him and kissed him her hands entangled in his hair and his left hand firmly on her waist and the right sliding up and down her back. With this he had broken away from her kisses for air and then began kissing her again picking her up and carrying her back to her bedroom. They kissed a few more time and he tucked her into bed. "Good night sleep tight darling" he said. She smiled and gave him one last kiss before he left her apartment and locked up.

John woke up the next morning feeling happy and jubilant. For John had been thinking about Grace the entire night and then had fallen asleep planning the next day. Today he knew what he must do; the stores open at 10am that should give him plenty of time to rehearse what he wanted to say. He arrived at the gemologist's store on the other side of town at 11:15am. He knew what he wanted he had picked it out weeks ago knowing the size and the perfect look. He made his purchase at 11:30 precisely this gave him plenty of time.

Grace looked at her alarm clock it said 12:47 "jeez I slept in pretty late" she thought. Then at her door came a solid knock. She walked over and looked through the peep hole of the door. It was John she flung open the door and let him in closed the door then kissed him lightly on the lips. He took her hand and led her over to the couch. He got down on one knee and proposed to her. "YES "she cried. He stood up and pulled her in tightly and kissed her deeply and passionately. "This was what I have been wanting and waiting for" Grace thought.

About exactly a year and a half later Grace was dressed in white and walking down the aisle way to music that she thought she wouldn't hear in what seemed like forever. The day had gone by so fast in a blur but all she could think of was this moment when the vows were exchanged and the seal of a kiss was made. They had decided that they would honeymoon in beautiful Paris, France. The first night there had been so amazing for them they shared a memory that made them one with each other. Then the last week they were there they had found an apartment that they would move into. Grace had no idea that this would be the start of many adventures….